Chris Carver

Chris Carver is an American former synchronized swimmer for San Jose State University in San Jose and a Hall of Fame synchronized swimming coach for age-group and U.S. national programs. She may be best known for coaching the Santa Clara Aquamaids to 17 titles in National Championship competition during her tenure as head team coach from 1984-2022. In addition to developing elite age group competitors through the Aquamaids, Carver served as a U.S. National team coach from 1987-2004.

In the years leading up to the Atlanta Olympics with Co-Coach Gail Emery, Carver helped lead the U.S. team to capture first place medals in all the international competitions it entered from the Pan American Games in 1991 to the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games in 1996. The Santa Clara Aquamaids under Carver have been credited with producing as many as 40% of the U.S. Olympic team's synchronized swimmers from 1996 through her later career. Of the nine American synchro team competitors at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, four were Santa Clara Aquamaids, including Jill Sudduth and Becky Dyroen-Lancer. The 1996 synchro team, with four of Carver's Aquamaids, won the team Olympic gold medal, becoming the first team to receive a perfect score of 100 in Olympic team competition.